findings under attack in israel report pulling yours and your wrongdoing in the raid on the gaza aid flotilla which killed nine turkish activists last may but turkey slams inquiry and says the military action was illegal. i'll be bringing you more on this controversial announcement that has many in the international community shaking their heads in just a few moments. violence spreads across the u.s. with more shooting sprees important and different strains while many are calling for tougher gun control laws some refuse to abandon what they call american culture . and moscow and washington are just one step away from finding out of the er a nuclear arms treaty will come to live as russia answers the final stage of deliberation.

we're going to live from moscow nine am here on marina jascha welcome to the program and israel inquiry into last year's deadly raid on a gaza bound aid foothill has ruled the actions of the country's naval commanders illegal nine turkish activists were killed when armed forces stormed the vessel's stamboul has rejected the finding saying of god no value or credibility our disposal year has more. these radio report says that the soldiers acted in self defense it examined one hundred and thirty three cases and found that in one hundred twenty seven the soldiers were eagerly justified in the way they acted it says in the six other cases it simply does not have sufficient information now the primary point that these retail commission is relying on is that the way the soldiers the commanding unit after did not break international law because it was quite clear they staged that this god of donald for to let intended to break these

weighty gluck aid on in gaza now these weighty defense minister ehud barak has praised the findings of this report he says it proves that israel is a law abiding country but many activists and one of them being an israeli member of parliament who belongs to an arab party had one thousand names wabi she was part of the fatality she has come out in heavy criticism saying that it ignores the killings of nine activists eight of them were turkish citizens and one was a turkish american citizen and we expect more international criticism as the day progresses we also know though that the first turlough the incident of course which happened on the thirty first of may has already received international condemnation no commission of inquiry in the world can justify deliberately restricting the passage of people and goods in order to paralyze the economy and prevent normal life from taking place in gaza and i'm sorry to say that's exactly what the israeli policy did we think that the lesson from the photo incident should be that israel

has a right to prevent weapons from entering gaza but it doesn't have a right to do what it's still doing which is to prevent purely civilian goods from coming in and out in order to punish the population you have to remember israel controls gaza's borders and that control creates obligations when you control a civilian population you're responsible for their rights and the law of occupation says that even under circumstances of security risks you have to allow people to lead normal lives so students need to be able to travel from gaza to the west bank in order to study families need to be able to travel back and and forth. to be reunited with each other and merchants in gaza have a right to sell their goods outside of gaza israel can certainly inspect the goods and make sure there's no security threat but that's all it can do and i'm sorry to say that that's not the case right now and the commission made a disturbing finding when it said that those civilian restrictions could be illegal under international law that's what we disagree with the turkish national inquiry submitted its findings to united nations back in september last year and of course now it is up to the u.n. secretary general to examine both the israeli and the turkish reports and release

its own conclusions we have no indication as of yet when that will be but the turkish commission did come out publicly for the first time yesterday sunday when the israeli report was issued saying and i'm quoting from a statement that it was surprised it was appalled and it was dismayed it said that he stands to be the typical commission exonerated the israeli defense forces the turkish prime minister has also said that this report has no credibility and no value to the criticism is also being leveled by political activists they say that these to nixon of decommissioning and also the limited authority it had this was not a public commission of inquiry from the outside it set up a committee that could only reach conclusions that were effectively conclusions that they wanted to reach in the first place. polls they are reporting there on the man accused of shooting u.s. congresswoman gabrielle giffords and they have will be court for a preliminary hearing later today charlie loughner went on a shooting spree at a public event on the into january in arizona six people were killed and thirteen

others wounded this high profile case is just one of a string of incidents involving gun violence in the country on sunday two people were shot dead and two policemen injured after a man began shooting at them outside of the parking store in the state of washington that same day a gunman went into a police station in detroit and shot four officers the violence has many americans calling for tougher gun control laws but as artie's lauren lyster reports some see the weapon as part of their culture and so taking it away goes against their history. you have to have as high as you can get ready. for the trigger. fire the right to bear arms the target of debate in the united states standing if it took just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain think you can carry a gun in chicago. and in my world everybody on the bus could have

a gun like making liberal shoot guns i just don't think we should be allowed to bring them home. to travel more than six hundred miles south. followed the same well worn tracks taken here during the civil war and you're transported to can assad georgia. a world of the. earth where second amendment rights are exercised all the time every day except for one ship whenever you are a little bit it's a way of life in the south a gun is just part of the household just like a hammer isn't a tool box and in the town of kennesaw. it's the law may first one thousand nine hundred two they passed that law requiring all. heads of household to own a gun. you heard him right everyone here must own a gun it was a rebuttal the moron grove illinois i call it more ago we call it moron grove who

passed a law banning firearms and i think with the law itself that got people in kennesaw take off it was performing coverage it received in what today would call the mainstream press the battle with the mainstream doesn't end there issues in which the point kennesaw are through a lot of the south would have the i exactly opposite viewpoint appear to reach much further back than the gun law my name is dennis myers the name my story wildman show up here past meets present. the taboo original claim uniform except for the. klan correct is not are people offended when you think i don't know whenever i ask them why would you be offended if you're playing pranks. on. the confederate flag has a home not far from the american one and is praised means that we had four years of destruction in this area here when we were trying to repel the invaders

it's a historical thing and i have much respect from over forty two racism of. this civil war there we have some. one from the air from or between states wasn't civil no civil war a civil war as a war in one country we had to come to a computer stays american united states for murder and it's not over either or anything a teenager before but. well you know you know you know modern with a. lot of people here i think the civil war is still a current topic not a historical topic in canada saw the us civil war is never far away and fact there are three has storage battlefields like this one within a ten mile radius of the town. and in their modern day battle gun owners' rights it also seems to be connected to this southern history i think southerners view the last gasp of the citizenry against a an oppressive government as it is to revolt because. we lost the war so we get

blamed for everything from foreign invaders what about on through nazi germany under hitler certainly the soviet union under stalin first thing they do is take the guns away from everybody so that they can't revolt could go and do what the government has planned but i won't call you a comes in and i think where some of the emotion comes from it's not just that you know you can can shoot a rabbit with it during hunting season. as for the gun law itself not everyone here abides by it i'm not personally going to have a gun oh of own plenty it goes but i don't quite have any right now but they do have opinions about it i think to go along to most of the news keeps criminals out i think that people you know would rather go somewhere else when the news out of the law enforcement says that may be true or violent crime rate is extremely low property crime is still less than half the national average and for the small southern town this may be their victory over the north that one hundred fifty years

after a civil war changed everything in the south as a result of that war there. lifestyle was one they stuck by their guns lauren mr r t kennesaw georgia. and here's a glance at a story that still have for us our here in our. educational experiment in russia leaves many divided on the possible threats and advantages of teaching religion at school and we explain why later in the program. the pivotal nuclear arms reduction path between moscow and washington is a final step away from being ratified by the russian parliament it's once again being debated before heading for its third of file hearing on tuesday russian lawmakers a man at the start treaty in the second here reading last week in response to changes in reservations raised in washington among the amendments is a requirement for america to remove tactical nuclear weapons from europe the house

will also call for other nuclear powers to join the process of nuclear reduction treaty signed between presidents movie had been abolished year as already been ratified by the us senate it now needs a file say from the russian parliament russia's deputy foreign minister sergei with cough says there are several key points to be addressed by moscow before the deal is rubber stamp. it's a huge boost for. joint efforts to establish a more stable and constructive fundament in our relationship with the us it took a while before the us senate threat to fly the resolute from our parliamentarians. use the period to separately study the american red resolution they drew their conclusions three zero four especially important things are. outlined in these documents by the state duma. these. are

firm belief in the separate inseparability between the strategic offensive weapons . strategic defensive weapons secondly we definitely thing that the so-called non-nuclear. strategic offensive weapons of growing importance they have a growing impact on the overall strategic stability thirdly we think that. in this very situation we would be only possible for russia to stay within the parameters of the treaty if nothing happens on the part of the u.s. that infringes national security interests of russia to an extent that. you know continues implementation of the treaty becomes questionable.

offer more on the start treaty and the latest on the issues over iran's nuclear program and watch the full interview with russia's deputy foreign minister sergey next hour here on r t. well now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and one hundred demonstrators have staged protests inspired of a night time curfew amid a new wave of unrest crowds are calling for the country's interim prime minister to step down. as already vowed to quit after fresh elections are held within six months the political chaos follows a month long uprising that deposed the country's leader killing almost eighty people on sunday police arrested two allies of ousted president ben ali. around fifty thousand people joined a rally in the belgian tabel demanding the government of the country following seven months of political stalemate and out official the ministration has been in place since elections in june last year produced no outright winner politicians

have been unable to reach an agreement over how the government should be made up belgium is divided between two regions with french speakers in the south and flemish speakers in the north. those killed in last week's have the floods and landslides and brazil has risen to at least eight hundred more than four hundred others remain missing avalanches of modern water and ripped through mainly poor areas tossing cars of the buildings and burying families alive as rescuers continue digging through towns the death toll rises daily the best of its reach thousand this week the disaster now brings the second worst of brazil's history. portugal's president. as want to second term following an election on sunday he received more than fifty percent of the vote easily beating his nearest rival on twenty percent presidents promised to work for political stability as

a government to avoid an international bailout. support of the minority socialist governments drive to cut the budget deficit through tough to stare at us. there's. a canadian driver with a dashboard camera has captured the dramatic moment a truck smashed through a central reservation and coming traffic the vehicle was carrying thirty tons of soil when it went out of control and crashed through the safety wall a sudden blizzard as caused hazardous driving conditions truck driver said to have been charged with careless driving. well still have this hour here in our media manipulation i doubt. keeping up with the news of the world might change the way you think. and some russian schools have undertaken an experiment of introducing new religious classes to their students' schedule but was

a country being walter confessional debates raging as to whether this experiment will succeed in teaching children about tolerance and understanding or split society or does excel a boy who reports. it looks like any other class with quizzes home or being sat on an extensive syllabus yet it is the only one in this church in school where pupils on the ward graded their studying the basics of islam the predominant religion here. islam teaches respect kindness peace and tolerance. peace and tolerance around the top of their gender when russia's ministry of education began testing religious subjects as part of the secondary curriculum last year the experiment allows students to study one of the major religions or concentrate on secular ethics yet while trying to provide room for all it's also putting pupils of different religious backgrounds in different classrooms

. but i think it was wrong to divide students so that some focus on christianity while other studies only in one country and we'll have to know some basics about each other as a dividing children is not a good idea at all. the organizers of the experiment said just that schools should be able to provide classes an any religion no matter how small the group being taught the shortage of financing often means that only one or two classes are offered here in the town of cost in mind central russia the children are well read about orthodox christianity if you are able to name all the religions practiced in russia. i don't mind other allegiance but i like orthodox christianity because it's the religion of other home and. about three hundred thousand students just two percent of the total school population are taking part in the project and

while most of the schools involved would prefer to keep spiritual subjects on the timetable experts say the initiative needs a thorough revision before it's rolled out further first of all this is clearly a discrimination against jews kids who are not religious so what are they going to do. they're going to be a separate probably class or what and it's also a tremendous pressure to accept one or the other for religion not because the blue of this religion but all of the go there too because everybody has to belong to solve a religious community which is again. democratic. the line between teaching religion and not indoctrination is fine and a subject which for many families should stay at home this educational experiment hasn't yet been declared either a success or failure of some theory that instead of promoting really just tolerance

and cultural understanding it may actually foster ethnic bias and social segregation that's on the way to our team. and to wise breakers in russia's far east have rescued us file ship that have been stuck solid in ice for nearly a mile. it's ones for fuel the ice breakers will return to escort another ship to open waters after it was taken to a safe haven following its rescue three ships found themselves stranded on the thirtieth of december with a combined group around four hundred less than a week later two more vessels became stuck at immediate rescue operation was launched but. hampered efforts to break through a range of new media outlets and build over are being accused of trying to influence its audience politically critics say remain sponsors or controlling the content of t.v. news and publications to promote or unification with the country but others are simply applauding more diversity in the press cesky investigates. the

mojo when pressed seems to have has undergone something of a make over in the past year with new t.v. programs airing different opinions so is the media becoming stronger and freer and this country after years of domination by only a few outlets it may seem so on the surface but some like internet journalists vitale and dear ski say the idea of a new dawn is only an illusion. when my website gained popularity some people from romania conjectured me and offered financial help in exchange for my website as he pulled the idea of reunification which we know gave up and romania or something three quarters of. rejects. before nine hundred forty five moldova belong to romania after the war it became part of the soviet union before independence on the collapse of the u.s.s.r. since then however some politicians in bucharest have been wanting it back and says

now they can use the media as a platform as most of the new press is sponsored by bucharest one of the most recent additions to moldova is media market is the quality paper i divert all the truth which is also one of the leading national dailies in romania. the very first edition of this romanian newspaper had some really sharp articles it speculated where the moldova was a toy between brussels and moscow and it also questioned the first decision to grant russia the right to host the twenty eighteenth football world cup. it is the first full color paper in moldova and this published in the romanian language rather than moldova in its deputy editor in chief says this is not an obstacle to popularity here which we can all go on this will go to seventy five percent of moldova and speak romanian and this is a fact proven by the academy of sciences designs out balanced approach to news is something new to this country opposition politicians believe such strong media

influence from a book arrest could threaten moldova's sovereignty the campaign that is. being run by the local press that is as i told you supported with the government already there. is constructed that way to make the integration possible chemical a think it through the so called european integration those promoting womanize ation of moldova have not been shy of using rather underhand methods according to one political act spurred on the middle. cable of prices which broadcast russian stations insert remaining programmes into the russian channels and time programmes which propagandize be caressed wish to seize back moldova sleaze russian stations deliver ideas moscow would never agree with. opinion polls suggest that number of moldovans wanting to reunite with romania has tripled over

the last twelve months from just five to fifteen percent whether that's down to the media is difficult to say for sure but those who promote reunification certainly see this sector as a key target to increase their influence alexy russia skeeters r.t. reporting from kisha now moldova and time now for business update with yuri into going. hello and a very warm welcome to your business update one seat too many russian companies all forced to dismantle chess to avoid have to taxes russia canceled some duties on for you major airplanes depending on the number of seats they have having done the math

and number of carriers have resorted to throwing out as many as two dozen chairs to qualify this area know the plane has just lost three rows they have c.e.o. says this will save them a significant amount. on a monthly basis will save. us dollars. in our cost base obviously that would increases the number of increases. and i think we continue to hope that this is essentially a short term measure not by. the hard profit tomorrow. in the market that we can reduce all those twenty one states and go back to. a let's now have a look at markets asian stocks some mixed the nikkei closed higher led by auto makers afternoon more holdings raised its rating on honda motor to buy the company's shares climbed almost four percent and after general electric beach and

existing that's china's thing saying it's almost top of the sunflower as concerns persist over beijing's further tightening measures last week state from chinese media reported the first rate hike this year could be as soon as early february. the russian stock markets closed last week on a positive note the mice it's went over one thousand seven hundred eighty points about softer than metal and well shares climbed on signs that the e.u. economy may be picking up. and after and eventful week investors are anticipating another action packed seven days from the russian stock market that's according to director of equity sales at creating investment bank michael stein. this week we're likely to see a lot of interest in the russian market especially since we did see a consolidation towards the back end of last week investors are going to pay a lot of attention to ongoing earnings releases in the united states we've had

a history of u.s. corporate beating consensus and six out of the last six quarters saying they're optimistic that we'll see this continue this week invest reviewing close attention to the third quarter for us results from gas problems in addition we expect our trading updates from a number of companies in the retail segment including dixie and ross internet. and the internet giant facebook has raised one billion dollars from normally u.s. investors with an infusion from goldman sachs and russia's digitals current acknowledges in december the latest round of funding brings the company want to have billion dollars no less facebook has limited their offering to non u.s. investors to one trillion investments value the social network at fifty billion dollars that's more than the value of yahoo and e-bay but below google and amazon facebook has not so fast specified how it plans to spend the investment money.

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